Dan Schwartz

Someone needs to edit the beginning of this video, as he rubs his hands together, with a thought bubble reading "Out damn spot!"

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

New Texas School Prayer Law Seems A Tad Fuzzy Texas has a new prayer in public school law that went into effect September 1.  It's not clear if there has been any public school praying going on yet,

New Texas School Prayer Law Seems a Tad Fuzzy www.patheos.com/blogs/therel...

With all the AI spyware built into Windows 11 and AI's inability to prevent spewing protected information if prompted, some university lawyers should really investigate whether teachers using Windows 11 violates FERPA.

I used to go there as a kid. I loved that place.

Publicly funded research should be publicly available!

3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars.

I have been informed by the good folks at @gorgiaspress.bsky.social that my translation of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (aka 2 Baruch) is officially in print, though I don't have a hard copy yet. Here's a link: www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...

The Romans gave us a word for a person whose speech (dicta) is law. Just hearing this claim feels like a gut punch.

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.

Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.

Study history! Get a job!

If forced to recommend a prayer for Texas school children, I'd probably go with Psalm 10.

When your leadership style is gaslighting

Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu

I was so happy to participate in the original roundtable discussion and this publication that came out of it. Many thanks to Dave Michelson for his work to bring this together!

Humanities Who needs history? Literature? Languages? Art? Philosophy? These can only help you to better understand our humanity. Best to let machines read your books. And write your books. Do your art for you. You will never need to think. Never need to learn. You’ll learn to like it. And when the end comes you’ll have never burdened down your soul with any growth. Someone selling this sees profit in destroying your humanity. -- John Wyatt Greenlee

A poem from this morning.

Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful' The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

A dachshund stands in a store, visible through glass doors marked with a "no dachshunds" graphic silhouette sign. The interior shows shopping carts and tiled flooring.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Congratulations to Prof. Salvesen! This is a very well-deserved honor.

Syriaca.org has been committed to curating linked data in the field of Syriac studies for over a decade. We are thrilled to see researchers using this infrastructure to do amazing work!

#booksky #writingcommunity

NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions.

This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.

Website of the Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Religions. The text reads: " Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Religions L*CeSAR is a network that aims to foster academic exchange among researchers working on ancient religions in Leiden and beyond. The Center seeks to become a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together scholars from Leiden University and other Dutch universities, and offering a platform for scholarly dialogue and the dissemination of knowledge." At the bottom, two clickable buttons read "Who are we?" and "What we do?". At the top, the horizontal menu reads "Home", "About us", "Activities" and "Contact Us"

Exciting news! @unileiden.bsky.social now has its very own Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Religions (L*CeSAR), run by my wonderful colleagues Kim Beerden and Rafał Matuszewski. Working on ancient religion, and looking to connect? Check out the website: ancientreligions.lucdh.nl

Free Workshop: Digital Encoding for Syriac Studies

Syriaca.org invites applications for a virtual workshop on “Digital Encoding for Syriac Studies” on Tuesday, July 29th and Thursday, July 31, 2025.

For details and registration information, see blog.syriaca.org/2025/06/digi...

I'll be in some national parks this summer. I plan to report this new signage. Whitewashing American history hurts America. Truth is the only path to reconciliation and healing. If America aspires to greatness, may it be a greatness based in knowing its past as a springboard to righting its wrongs.

Has there ever been a government office that has felt more fully a part of the community it represents? A staff as universally respected? An absolutely devastating blow.

It’s hard for me to quantify just how much the NEH has meant to my career. Beyond just direct funding, there are *so many* foundational DH projects, methods, and tools that were launched because the NEH was there to support them. It’s a dark day indeed.